Celebrate World Hypertension Day (WHD) on 17 May and contribute to improving awareness of Hypertension. For the five-year period 2013-2018, the theme of WHD will be ‘Know Your Numbers’ with the goal of increasing high blood pressure awareness in all populations around the world.

The December 2014 issue of ISH Hypertension News is now available. Contributions include a report from the ISH President, Rhian Touyz, informing us about her first half year in office, updates from the New Investigator Committee and much more.

The ISH New Investigator Network recently created a platform on LinkedIn for young professionals in hypertension research to connect, find researchers in similar fields of interest and to establish exciting new collaborations and research ideas.

We would like to congratulate Dr. Elena Ardeleanu from Timisoara, Romania who unfortunately was not able to receive her ISH International Forum Prize during the recent ISH Awards Ceremony in Athens. She was awarded a clinical prize (for the Eastern Europe and Middle East Region) for her abstract presented at the meeting entitled Management of Resistant Hypertension in Primary Care.

Participating in the New Investigator Committee networking event was an important moment as I was introduced to various researchers from similar fields as mine. It was great to share interests at this place and I hope for resulting future cooperation!

Professor Touyz is the Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences (ICAMS) at the University of Glasgow, where she holds the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine.